We announced a few days back the impending arrival of the game Snake Rewind. For those of you who may have missed the post, here's a little recap. The new game, Snake Rewind, is based on the old classic Snake, and was developed by Rumilus Design with the help of Taneli Armanto, the man responsible for putting snake on Nokia handsets. The game features similar mechanics as the original title which was the first smash hit mobile game.

Snake Rewind was originally set for release on May 14th, but to our surprise, the app is already live on the Play Store a few hours early!

I downloaded it and tried a couple of rounds. The pixelated graphics and retro video game music made for a nostalgic rabbit hole where I could easily see myself passing a few happy hours. I did miss the physical buttons to control the snake's path as I found the tap and swipe controls were a bit overly sensitive in my brief experience. Alas, I didn't get to play long since I had to pull myself away to write this post.

If you want to relive the glory days of 1997 when you rocked a bowl cut, turtle neck, and overalls with a Nokia 6110 nestled in the front pocket, then I suggest you download Snake Rewind and give it a try. It is free to play with IAPs. Also, keep an eye out for our in depth review coming shortly.

Comments

Oh, look. Another article that's not a teardown of the I/O 2015 app :P

Jeff Beck

Oh, look. Another comment that has nothing to do with the article I just wrote :P

Fatal1ty_93_RUS

Except that the teardown is already done

Marcel Ulbrich

In-app purchases for 28.77Eur? You can get 7 Nokia phones with the original game on them for that kind of money.

BoFiS

OF COURSE you'd prefer physical controls, it's Snake...which is sorta why I'm not sure about this release... also what are the IAPs for??

Jeff Beck

you can upgrade the special items in the game and unlock new levels with fruit. All the items can be unlocked by just playing the game though.

Tsun_Pooka

On the subject of physical controls, is there controller support? I have a crappy 1GB mobile data connection, and its better to save as much as can be.

Mrd1

If your data is limited, watch out for this game. I've noticed it seems to use about 3 to 5 mb an hour for no reason (don't see any ads / online connections). I'm also suspicious of its needing to have access to my wifi and network connections.

Tsun_Pooka

Weird. I'll check out if a patch gets released and turn off my mobile data when playing it. But, do you have any idea about the controller support? Thanks for the warning by the way.

Mrd1

I don't. I did have a brief emailing with the developer. They assured me the data usage was only from sending scores home to their scoreboard and serving video ads (ability must exist to watch for in game perks?). However, the amount I'm seeing is by far too much. They are looking into why that could be.

Also, the game stopped working this morning. Won't load or even provide a crash report. Hoping they can fix that too.

New game, so bugs certainty are expected. They were very responsive and nice, so I give them a lot of credit. ☺

juanxosam

I've been playing it and its fun (it's snake of course it is) but controls are far from ideal. I mean, of course it's a touch screen but I've noticed some weird behavior from the game (like the snake going the opposite direction I wanted)

Jeff Beck

Me too, hopefully just some early release bugs.

NothingUnknown

Noticed that too. You have to use the lines as a guide of where to tap. So if you are going horizontal, you have to tap above the direction to go up or down.

It would be nice of it were just left and right half and it would just rotate clockwise or counter.

Gerardo Sarabia

I noticed that. If you want to go up, you have to tap somewhere on the screen above the snake's head, kind of confusing, specially when snake's head is on top and you have a big screen. Maybe that's part of the challenge on this game, but I would prefer something more simple, this just feels wrong.

This game could do with on-screen buttons. The whole point of Snake is to tap the right direction at the right time precisely.

Veronica

Iap's... They killed the rebirth of Snake :(

Guillaume

They killed gaming

Tsun_Pooka

I assume you only heard of the abbreviation before you jumped on it and copy-pasted your ages old answer... So, did you play it and see if the IAPs are forced or not? After all, Snake Rewind is offered for free.